"Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one."

-- Frederick William Robertson

#Strong Quotes #Mourning Quotes #Evidence Quotes

“I grew up in Russia where you can not be a trash talker because where I grew up if you're a trash talker you should have to answer for your words. If you don't answer for your words you're nobody. You have no respect from your friends, everybody but here in America everybody comes to say everything for free but they will have to pay in the ring for me.”
“On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.”
“Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."”

Source : Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
“Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.”
“I hear pounding feet in the streets below And the women crying and the children know That there's something wrong And it's hard to believe that love will prevail Oh it won't rain all the time The sky won't fall forever And though the night seems long Your tears won't fall forever”
“Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.”
“I haven't turned into an absolute geek who doesn't like doing fun things.”
“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”

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